He said the WTO 6th Ministerial Conference (MC6) to be held in Hong Kong next month remained a key staging post towards the conclusion of Doha Round by the end of 2006.
Attending an informal gathering of trade ministers from various WTO economies in Geneva, John Tsang said a lot of progress had been made, adding that all concerned parties needed to capture that progress and focus for the final stretch.
"The Doha Round is a development round. In this area, we need to harvest as many as possible agreement-specific proposals, particularly, those submitted by the least-developed countries," he said.